1 00:00:05,280 --> 00:00:07,760 Hello and welcome to the program UFO Warning. 2 00:00:07,840 --> 00:00:12,880 In this episode we're talking about the Muncie IN UFO flap. 3 00:00:13,280 --> 00:00:17,440 That's correct, the Muncie IN UFO flap. 4 00:00:18,000 --> 00:00:22,080 Now this actually happened back in October 1973. 5 00:00:22,080 --> 00:00:24,800 Did a little research on AI about this. 6 00:00:24,800 --> 00:00:29,760 It says the big picture sudden flap, not isolated sightings. 7 00:00:29,960 --> 00:00:32,960 What happened in Muncie wasn't a single event. 8 00:00:33,480 --> 00:00:38,520 It was a classic UFO flap, meaning a concentrated surge of 9 00:00:38,520 --> 00:00:44,000 sightings over a short time. In October 1973, reports 10 00:00:44,000 --> 00:00:47,560 exploded into the hundreds across Muncie and Delaware 11 00:00:47,560 --> 00:00:50,360 County. The activity peaked over just 12 00:00:50,400 --> 00:00:56,200 five to six days, suggesting A localized time bound phenomena. 13 00:00:56,720 --> 00:01:01,000 Police were overwhelmed with 100 calls in a short span, many 14 00:01:01,000 --> 00:01:04,080 describing similar objects. Now remember 1972? 15 00:01:04,080 --> 00:01:06,680 This was a long time before cell phones came on the scene. 16 00:01:07,520 --> 00:01:11,040 Now this Clustering matters. Random misidentifications don't 17 00:01:11,120 --> 00:01:15,160 usually synchronize like that across large numbers of 18 00:01:15,160 --> 00:01:17,840 witnesses. And what people actually saw 19 00:01:17,920 --> 00:01:22,680 well across reports, several consistent characteristics 20 00:01:22,680 --> 00:01:27,040 appear #1 low flying, structured objects. 21 00:01:27,480 --> 00:01:30,400 Witness repeatedly described objects hovering at low 22 00:01:30,400 --> 00:01:36,920 altitude, sometimes near treetop level, disc, oblong or undefined 23 00:01:36,920 --> 00:01:40,800 shapes, stationary behavior followed by sudden rapid 24 00:01:40,800 --> 00:01:43,440 movement. Many sightings weren't lights in 25 00:01:43,440 --> 00:01:47,160 the sky at high altitude, they were close range encounters. 26 00:01:47,520 --> 00:01:50,080 I think that's important that these things were seen up close. 27 00:01:50,840 --> 00:01:52,360 Now there were multi colored lights. 28 00:01:52,360 --> 00:01:55,280 That was a key pattern. It's a dominant feature, red, 29 00:01:55,280 --> 00:01:59,320 green, blue and white lights. Lights pulsed, rotated or 30 00:01:59,320 --> 00:02:03,760 changed intensity objects that seem to dim and brighten 31 00:02:03,760 --> 00:02:07,440 intentionally. And this matches broader 1973 32 00:02:07,440 --> 00:02:11,920 sightings in the US were multi colored low altitude lights or 33 00:02:11,920 --> 00:02:15,600 signature Kind of thinking of Steven Spielberg here with the 34 00:02:17,880 --> 00:02:21,320 with the big giant flying saucer there in the in the third kind, 35 00:02:21,920 --> 00:02:24,360 a silent or near silent movement. 36 00:02:24,400 --> 00:02:29,320 Several reports emphasize little to no sound movement that didn't 37 00:02:29,320 --> 00:02:32,080 resemble aircraft and sudden acceleration or vertical 38 00:02:32,080 --> 00:02:34,560 departure. Now this is important because 39 00:02:34,560 --> 00:02:38,720 the 1970s aircraft, even helicopters had very distinct 40 00:02:39,000 --> 00:02:41,040 sound profiles. You know, we're not talking 41 00:02:41,040 --> 00:02:45,800 about stealth bombers or drones or anything like that. 42 00:02:46,680 --> 00:02:49,560 Now, there was a high strangeness layer. 43 00:02:49,560 --> 00:02:51,120 And this is where it gets interesting. 44 00:02:51,560 --> 00:02:55,480 This is where months he goes beyond typical UFO sightings. 45 00:02:55,480 --> 00:02:59,040 There was a landing report, one of the most compelling cases. 46 00:02:59,400 --> 00:03:02,280 A woman reported a craft landing in her backyard. 47 00:03:02,800 --> 00:03:06,240 A neighbor heard clicking mechanical noises and a 48 00:03:06,240 --> 00:03:09,000 responding deputy stated that this lady was generally 49 00:03:09,000 --> 00:03:12,840 frightened and credible. That combination visual and 50 00:03:12,840 --> 00:03:16,120 auditory, plus law enforcement response is notable. 51 00:03:16,880 --> 00:03:21,200 And there was an entities encounter, so we actually have 52 00:03:21,200 --> 00:03:24,080 an alien encounter here. Perhaps the most famous and 53 00:03:24,080 --> 00:03:27,280 unsettling report was a caller told police there are people out 54 00:03:27,280 --> 00:03:30,560 here that aren't people. The description included 55 00:03:30,600 --> 00:03:34,600 silvery, scaled appearance, nonhuman characteristics. 56 00:03:35,080 --> 00:03:38,680 Now you can dismiss this as panic or imagination, but it 57 00:03:38,680 --> 00:03:44,400 does align with a broader 1973 humanoid wave across the country 58 00:03:44,560 --> 00:03:47,560 where entity sightings accompanied UFOs. 59 00:03:47,960 --> 00:03:51,000 And that correlation is hard to ignore if you're looking at 60 00:03:51,000 --> 00:03:53,920 patterns rather than just isolated stories. 61 00:03:54,680 --> 00:03:57,640 Now, there were also geographic clusterings or hotspots. 62 00:03:58,040 --> 00:04:01,760 Sightings weren't evenly distributed, the intersection of 63 00:04:01,760 --> 00:04:05,240 Wheeling Ave. and Mcgalliard Rd. became a repeated hotspot, 64 00:04:05,640 --> 00:04:09,360 Multiple independent witnesses reportedly reported activity in 65 00:04:09,360 --> 00:04:12,840 the same area, and hotspot behavior is a reoccurring 66 00:04:12,840 --> 00:04:16,839 feature in UFO cases globally. It makes sense, especially if 67 00:04:16,839 --> 00:04:18,560 these things are interdimensional, that they'd be 68 00:04:19,000 --> 00:04:23,320 honing in on one particular spot that was also a social impact 69 00:04:23,320 --> 00:04:25,760 from fear to cultural saturation. 70 00:04:26,480 --> 00:04:28,400 This wasn't just a few people talking. 71 00:04:28,400 --> 00:04:31,800 I took over the entire town. Police lines were flooded with 72 00:04:31,800 --> 00:04:36,000 calls, there was widespread discussion in local media, and 73 00:04:36,000 --> 00:04:39,560 businesses even leaned into the UFO theme promotions. 74 00:04:40,400 --> 00:04:45,200 It followed a classic pattern, confusion, fear, normalization, 75 00:04:45,520 --> 00:04:48,600 and commercialization. We still see this pattern today. 76 00:04:48,920 --> 00:04:53,800 Confusion, fear, normalization, commercialization. 77 00:04:54,560 --> 00:04:57,320 People see him, they get confused, they get a little bit 78 00:04:57,320 --> 00:05:00,480 afraid. It becomes normal after a while, 79 00:05:00,760 --> 00:05:03,520 and then eventually somebody commercializes it, whether it's 80 00:05:03,520 --> 00:05:07,360 a store running in alien spacials or whether it's, you 81 00:05:07,360 --> 00:05:10,960 know, other exports. And debunkers profiting off the 82 00:05:10,960 --> 00:05:14,080 topic now attempts to explain it away. 83 00:05:14,080 --> 00:05:16,320 As expected, explanations followed. 84 00:05:16,640 --> 00:05:19,560 There are reflections from tinfoil or neon lights, weather 85 00:05:19,560 --> 00:05:22,960 balloons, of course, aircraft with banners, possible 86 00:05:22,960 --> 00:05:27,040 helicopter misidentifications, and some of these likely explain 87 00:05:27,240 --> 00:05:30,200 individual sightings. But they struggle with the 88 00:05:30,200 --> 00:05:34,600 volume of reports, the close range encounters the entity 89 00:05:34,600 --> 00:05:37,160 claims, and the synchronized timing. 90 00:05:37,440 --> 00:05:40,760 In other words, explanations exist, but they don't cleanly 91 00:05:40,760 --> 00:05:43,760 cover the entire event. I mean, when you have this many 92 00:05:43,760 --> 00:05:47,120 sightings, there's just no way that one SX explanation can 93 00:05:47,120 --> 00:05:49,800 cover the whole thing up. Now we do need to remember the 94 00:05:49,800 --> 00:05:52,720 context. It was 1973, which is not a 95 00:05:52,720 --> 00:05:57,920 normal year. 1973 is widely considered one of the peak UFO 96 00:05:57,920 --> 00:06:01,720 years in U.S. history. Massive siding waves across 97 00:06:01,720 --> 00:06:06,280 multiple states, frequent low altitude encounters, numerous 98 00:06:06,360 --> 00:06:10,040 humanoid reports. Even nearby regions like Ohio 99 00:06:10,040 --> 00:06:12,760 and Indiana broadly reported this. 100 00:06:12,840 --> 00:06:15,960 Objects with multiple with multi colored lights and low level 101 00:06:15,960 --> 00:06:19,160 maneuvering radar and pilot encounters. 102 00:06:19,160 --> 00:06:22,640 So people are seeing these things from the ground, from the 103 00:06:22,640 --> 00:06:27,200 air, and on radar. Muncie fits into a larger 104 00:06:27,200 --> 00:06:30,440 national pattern and wasn't just an isolated anomaly. 105 00:06:31,520 --> 00:06:35,360 Now, if you approach this with an open but rational mindset, a 106 00:06:35,360 --> 00:06:39,400 few conclusions do stand out. Something real happened. 107 00:06:39,840 --> 00:06:43,720 The density and consistency of reports strongly suggests that 108 00:06:44,200 --> 00:06:47,320 they suggest this wasn't just an imagination or hoax, that 109 00:06:47,320 --> 00:06:50,680 multiple people observed genuine aerial anomalies. 110 00:06:50,880 --> 00:06:54,680 In other words, UF OS they aren't easily explained by 111 00:06:54,680 --> 00:06:57,080 conventional causes. And while some sightings may 112 00:06:57,080 --> 00:07:00,760 have mundane explanations, the core events, the landings, the 113 00:07:00,760 --> 00:07:03,480 entity reports, the coordinated sightings, they remain 114 00:07:03,480 --> 00:07:07,760 unresolved. To me, the high strangeness is 115 00:07:07,760 --> 00:07:11,320 the key signal here. The most important aspect isn't 116 00:07:11,320 --> 00:07:15,000 just lights in the sky, it's the behavioral anomalies, objects 117 00:07:15,000 --> 00:07:19,080 reacting to observers, apparent landing events, entity 118 00:07:19,080 --> 00:07:21,800 encounters. This proof is the case beyond 119 00:07:21,800 --> 00:07:25,400 simple misidentifications. You can say, well, you know, 120 00:07:25,400 --> 00:07:29,080 you, you mistook an airplane for a UFO light. 121 00:07:29,440 --> 00:07:31,640 But when the thing lands in your backyard, that's a little bit 122 00:07:31,640 --> 00:07:34,680 different. It fits a larger pattern of 123 00:07:34,680 --> 00:07:38,600 intelligence driven phenomena across 1973. 124 00:07:38,600 --> 00:07:41,720 And even after that we see repeated localized flaps, 125 00:07:42,160 --> 00:07:46,000 similar light configurations and occasional entity interaction. 126 00:07:46,280 --> 00:07:49,080 You know, think about what happened in Las Vegas or what 127 00:07:49,080 --> 00:07:52,200 happened in Florida. Even if you listen to the 128 00:07:52,200 --> 00:07:55,760 arguments of the debunkers, there's still this whole social 129 00:07:55,760 --> 00:07:59,160 thing going on here where people are aware of what's going on and 130 00:07:59,160 --> 00:08:00,360 they're ready for these encounters. 131 00:08:00,360 --> 00:08:03,120 It seems like. Now the bottom line in Muncie is 132 00:08:03,120 --> 00:08:07,160 that it was a classic UFO flab. There were close range 133 00:08:07,160 --> 00:08:10,480 encounters. There was, it did escalate into 134 00:08:10,480 --> 00:08:14,200 high strangeness with these possible alien encounters and 135 00:08:14,200 --> 00:08:17,800 embedded, and it was embedded within a national wave of 136 00:08:17,800 --> 00:08:22,120 activity. So even if you stay cautious 137 00:08:22,120 --> 00:08:26,000 about this, it's hard to actually reduce the entire 138 00:08:26,000 --> 00:08:29,360 episode just down to coincidence or misidentification. 139 00:08:29,680 --> 00:08:32,720 Now, there are some good newspaper articles out here and 140 00:08:32,720 --> 00:08:34,600 I want to take a look at this next one right here. 141 00:08:36,200 --> 00:08:40,840 This is from ipm.org. It says Journey, Indiana close 142 00:08:40,840 --> 00:08:47,160 Encounters of the Muncie kind, the Muncie UFO mania of 1973, 143 00:08:47,880 --> 00:08:51,880 the 1973 Muncie UFO sightings, Indiana's alien mania. 144 00:08:52,240 --> 00:08:57,040 Muncie is a typical Midwestern small city, a very hometown 145 00:08:57,040 --> 00:09:02,040 feel, a crossroads of America. It's a good place to live and 146 00:09:02,320 --> 00:09:05,120 raise a family, says Karen Vincent, executive director of 147 00:09:05,120 --> 00:09:07,160 the Delaware County Historical Society. 148 00:09:07,720 --> 00:09:11,600 At first glance, Muncie seems like another small Midwestern 149 00:09:11,600 --> 00:09:14,080 town that looks can be deceiving. 150 00:09:14,520 --> 00:09:17,000 There are a lot of weird and eerie things that have gone on 151 00:09:17,000 --> 00:09:19,760 in Muncie for many years. I don't think it was out of the 152 00:09:19,760 --> 00:09:21,640 ordinary to have people seeing UFOs here. 153 00:09:22,160 --> 00:09:25,760 It happened before, but in 1973 it was a much bigger deal, 154 00:09:25,760 --> 00:09:28,280 describes Vincent. And 1973. 155 00:09:28,280 --> 00:09:30,320 Something was happening in the skies above Muncie. 156 00:09:30,720 --> 00:09:34,680 What started as whispers turned into something much louder and 157 00:09:34,720 --> 00:09:38,440 much stranger. By October, these UFO sightings 158 00:09:38,440 --> 00:09:42,520 were so abundant that newspaper articles from the time read like 159 00:09:42,520 --> 00:09:45,960 a Hollywood script. Sarah McKinley, archivist at the 160 00:09:46,000 --> 00:09:50,000 Muncie Public Library, says Muncie went through a UFO mania. 161 00:09:50,400 --> 00:09:53,800 Throughout the month of October, there were hundreds of reports 162 00:09:53,800 --> 00:09:56,560 of UFO sightings in Muncie and Delaware County. 163 00:09:57,360 --> 00:10:00,720 It just seemed to explode for about 5 or 6 days, says Vincent. 164 00:10:01,240 --> 00:10:04,560 One in particular, there was a woman who reported that an 165 00:10:04,560 --> 00:10:06,840 object had landed in her backyard. 166 00:10:07,160 --> 00:10:10,680 Her neighbor reported hearing loud clicking noises at the same 167 00:10:10,680 --> 00:10:12,440 time. This is occurrence. 168 00:10:12,560 --> 00:10:16,960 McKinley says a sheriff's deputy came and spoke with her and he 169 00:10:16,960 --> 00:10:19,720 said I don't know what she saw, but she definitely saw something 170 00:10:19,720 --> 00:10:23,000 because she was frightened. Vincent says it seems that the 171 00:10:23,000 --> 00:10:26,800 intersection of Wheeling and Mcgilliard was a hotspot because 172 00:10:27,080 --> 00:10:29,040 there were several sightings in that area. 173 00:10:29,040 --> 00:10:32,520 And then of course, people who aren't people, the stranger's 174 00:10:32,520 --> 00:10:34,880 reports. Just when it seemed strange 175 00:10:34,880 --> 00:10:38,600 enough, things got even weirder. There was supposedly a call to 176 00:10:38,600 --> 00:10:42,360 police from something that happened near Wheeling or the 177 00:10:42,360 --> 00:10:46,480 person who reported it said there are people out here that 178 00:10:46,480 --> 00:10:49,400 aren't people. That was always the really 179 00:10:49,400 --> 00:10:52,200 creepy quote that we found in the newspaper, describes 180 00:10:52,200 --> 00:10:55,560 McKinley. She had seen something silvery 181 00:10:55,560 --> 00:10:58,240 with scales is what she said, Vincent says. 182 00:10:58,440 --> 00:11:02,720 So apparently the aliens landed panic and sued like any good 183 00:11:02,720 --> 00:11:06,600 man, you know, word spread like wildfire. 100 calls to Muncie 184 00:11:06,600 --> 00:11:08,360 police, more calls to the Sheriff's Department. 185 00:11:08,360 --> 00:11:12,520 Mostly it had to do with lights and moving objects, maybe lights 186 00:11:12,520 --> 00:11:15,080 low to the ground. It seemed to have to do with a 187 00:11:15,080 --> 00:11:17,000 lot of colored lights, Vincent explains. 188 00:11:17,800 --> 00:11:21,000 By late October, the sightings had become part of the town's 189 00:11:21,000 --> 00:11:24,600 identity, blurring the line between news and pop culture. 190 00:11:24,880 --> 00:11:28,120 There was a Halloween costume contest at the mall at October. 191 00:11:28,440 --> 00:11:30,800 A lot of people dressed in outer space outfits because of the 192 00:11:30,800 --> 00:11:33,880 whole UFO buzz that was going around Muncie, McKinley 193 00:11:33,880 --> 00:11:36,400 describes. We found an ad in the newspaper 194 00:11:36,400 --> 00:11:40,200 from November 9th, 1973 from the Dairy Queen that said UF OS have 195 00:11:40,200 --> 00:11:43,960 landed at the North Dairy Queen. Come and get a horrible creature 196 00:11:43,960 --> 00:11:47,200 Sunday. The sightings continued for 197 00:11:47,200 --> 00:11:49,440 years, but the tone began to shift. 198 00:11:49,440 --> 00:11:52,080 More and more explanations began to emerge. 199 00:11:52,520 --> 00:11:56,520 All the way up through 1977, there were stories in the 200 00:11:56,520 --> 00:12:00,000 newspaper, but gradually more and more of them had rational 201 00:12:00,000 --> 00:12:02,120 explanations for what they could be. 202 00:12:02,680 --> 00:12:05,600 They found a piece of tinfoil high in a tree and it was 203 00:12:05,600 --> 00:12:08,720 reflecting lights from neon signs from local businesses, 204 00:12:08,720 --> 00:12:12,040 says McKinley. My favorite one was that UF OS 205 00:12:12,040 --> 00:12:15,200 explanation was an airplane that was flying overhead with a 206 00:12:15,200 --> 00:12:18,120 banner behind it that was advertising stakes for a local 207 00:12:18,120 --> 00:12:21,680 lounge, and that was the UFO, Vincent states. 208 00:12:21,680 --> 00:12:24,440 Reports that came out either concentrated on these 209 00:12:24,440 --> 00:12:28,080 helicopters or weather balloons. So maybe, maybe not. 210 00:12:28,520 --> 00:12:31,360 Well, it's almost like we see in a lot of these you have a 211 00:12:31,360 --> 00:12:34,640 parallel narrative that gets started right after the initial 212 00:12:34,760 --> 00:12:38,040 encounter or sighting. While the skies eventually 213 00:12:38,040 --> 00:12:41,480 quieted, a new kind of light took over the bright lights of 214 00:12:41,480 --> 00:12:43,240 Hollywood. The character that Richard 215 00:12:43,240 --> 00:12:46,320 Dreyfuss plays, Roy Neary in close Encounters of the Third 216 00:12:46,320 --> 00:12:51,160 Kind part of it said in Muncie, he has his UFO experience in 217 00:12:51,160 --> 00:12:53,800 Muncie in the film. The correlation between the two, 218 00:12:53,960 --> 00:12:56,920 because it's only four years apart from when the UFO mania 219 00:12:56,920 --> 00:13:00,520 hit Muncie and when the film came out, there are theories 220 00:13:00,520 --> 00:13:03,720 that that's why they chose Muncie as location, explains 221 00:13:03,720 --> 00:13:06,240 McKinley. To some they're just stories, 222 00:13:06,240 --> 00:13:09,480 but for others, these moments are a history worth preserving. 223 00:13:10,200 --> 00:13:12,840 All of these stories, whether it's a UFO or unsolved 224 00:13:12,840 --> 00:13:15,200 mysteries, I think have an important place in our history 225 00:13:15,200 --> 00:13:18,080 and something that people should know about and study because 226 00:13:18,080 --> 00:13:19,840 it's part of our community's history. 227 00:13:20,280 --> 00:13:24,200 We should embrace that we have those stories here because they 228 00:13:24,200 --> 00:13:26,720 also make us unique. McKinley concludes. 229 00:13:27,040 --> 00:13:30,320 Yeah, oh, I'm not really a bad article, really. 230 00:13:30,320 --> 00:13:34,720 Just kind of go through some of the some of the main points of 231 00:13:34,720 --> 00:13:36,800 this whole thing. So I want to finish up with this 232 00:13:36,920 --> 00:13:40,880 last article here. It's from xonews.org. 233 00:13:40,880 --> 00:13:44,600 Says UFO mania hit Muncie hard in 1973. 234 00:13:45,320 --> 00:13:52,280 It's articles by Keith Royston dated January 2018, says in In 235 00:13:52,280 --> 00:13:57,760 October 1973, The Muncie Star in Muncie, IN rent a UPI story 236 00:13:57,760 --> 00:14:03,080 about 3 UFOs over Tennessee reported by 20 witnesses, 237 00:14:03,400 --> 00:14:07,800 including a County Sheriff in Chester County, Tennessee. 2 238 00:14:07,800 --> 00:14:12,640 UFOs reportedly buzzed 2 young brothers who hid in a chicken 239 00:14:12,640 --> 00:14:14,720 coop. Police blamed the 240 00:14:14,720 --> 00:14:18,280 misidentification objects as merely weather balloons. 241 00:14:18,640 --> 00:14:20,880 Yeah, those weather balloons are all over the place, aren't they? 242 00:14:21,960 --> 00:14:25,600 On October 9th, the Muncie Star reported several 100 people saw 243 00:14:25,720 --> 00:14:29,160 mysterious multi colored lights in the sky over Muncie. 244 00:14:29,600 --> 00:14:32,360 Police blamed it on weather balloons. 245 00:14:32,960 --> 00:14:34,640 I mean, how many of these weather balloons we have 246 00:14:34,640 --> 00:14:38,240 floating around out there? On October 13th, the UPI 247 00:14:38,240 --> 00:14:43,000 reported that two shipyard workers in Pascagoula, Ms. 248 00:14:43,320 --> 00:14:46,880 claimed to have been abducted and taken aboard a UFO by 249 00:14:47,000 --> 00:14:50,760 silvery skinned creatures with big eyes and pointed ears. 250 00:14:51,080 --> 00:14:55,000 The shipyard workers stories were verified under hypnosis. 251 00:14:55,680 --> 00:14:59,000 Now of course we're talking about Pascagluga, that's Charles 252 00:14:59,040 --> 00:15:02,760 Hickson and and Calvin Parker. We've talked about them multiple 253 00:15:02,760 --> 00:15:07,320 times on this podcast and they were actually recorded by the 254 00:15:07,320 --> 00:15:12,280 Sheriff's Department unbeknownst to themselves while the sheriff 255 00:15:12,280 --> 00:15:15,400 was out of the room. And everything they said in that 256 00:15:15,400 --> 00:15:18,680 private conversation they had in that in that interrogation room 257 00:15:18,680 --> 00:15:21,160 lined up perfectly with their official story. 258 00:15:21,920 --> 00:15:24,880 Moving on here says other reports began coming in from 259 00:15:24,880 --> 00:15:29,000 Muncie and Delaware County, Indiana of a rash of UFO 260 00:15:29,000 --> 00:15:32,040 sightings. The Starz newspaper article 261 00:15:32,040 --> 00:15:34,920 headline read UFO reports rampant in the South. 262 00:15:35,360 --> 00:15:37,760 Indiana National Guard helicopters were blamed for 263 00:15:37,760 --> 00:15:41,440 these UFO sightings, so you kind of see the narrative as it 264 00:15:41,440 --> 00:15:46,560 progresses along here. On October 14th, a Dayton, OH 265 00:15:46,560 --> 00:15:50,880 woman told police that an oblong object with blinking lights 266 00:15:51,080 --> 00:15:54,080 killed 2 cows when it landed in a field. 267 00:15:54,960 --> 00:15:59,720 October 17th, the Muncie Evening Press reported an encounter of a 268 00:15:59,720 --> 00:16:04,800 Muncie woman who claimed that a UFO had landed behind her home. 269 00:16:05,280 --> 00:16:08,800 The patrolman at the scene said that Lady did see something 270 00:16:08,800 --> 00:16:11,960 because she was terrified. There are people out there that 271 00:16:11,960 --> 00:16:15,320 are not people. One caller told police about 272 00:16:15,560 --> 00:16:18,880 said about the incident near the town of the of Wheeling N 273 00:16:19,040 --> 00:16:21,280 Muncie. Now getting back into this lady 274 00:16:21,280 --> 00:16:26,880 a little bit, I find this to be actually pretty interesting 275 00:16:26,880 --> 00:16:32,920 because if you ask AI about this, it tells you that the 276 00:16:32,920 --> 00:16:35,360 encounter involving Misses Pierce, that's what she's 277 00:16:35,360 --> 00:16:40,040 referred to in the newspaper articles at 226 N Davis St. in 278 00:16:40,040 --> 00:16:43,760 Muncie, IN is one of the most grounded and in some ways most 279 00:16:43,760 --> 00:16:49,880 compelling cases from the 1973 UFO wave because it combines a 280 00:16:49,880 --> 00:16:52,800 named witness, a precise location, police involvement and 281 00:16:52,800 --> 00:16:57,720 corroborating sensory details. And it says the setting October 282 00:16:57,720 --> 00:16:59,720 1973. This is during the peak of the 283 00:16:59,720 --> 00:17:02,960 Muncie flat. By the time Missus Pierce made 284 00:17:02,960 --> 00:17:06,720 her call, Muncie was already in the middle of a full scale UFO 285 00:17:06,720 --> 00:17:09,040 outbreak. Police lines were flooded 286 00:17:09,040 --> 00:17:12,200 nightly with reports of low flying objects, multi colored 287 00:17:12,200 --> 00:17:14,319 lights and strange aerial phenomena. 288 00:17:14,640 --> 00:17:18,200 Against that backdrop, her experience stands out because it 289 00:17:18,200 --> 00:17:20,839 wasn't just a sighting in the sky, it was reported as a 290 00:17:20,839 --> 00:17:23,800 landing event at a private residence. 291 00:17:24,280 --> 00:17:27,920 Now the core incident. The date on this is mid-october 292 00:17:27,920 --> 00:17:31,600 1973. Time approximately 8:54 PM. 293 00:17:31,600 --> 00:17:34,880 Location behind her home at 226 N Davis St. 294 00:17:34,880 --> 00:17:37,760 Muncie. At that hour Missus Pierce 295 00:17:37,760 --> 00:17:42,120 contact the police with a startling claim a UFO had landed 296 00:17:42,120 --> 00:17:45,640 behind her house. When officers responded, they 297 00:17:45,640 --> 00:17:49,000 didn't recover physical evidence of the craft, but what they did 298 00:17:49,000 --> 00:17:51,120 observe became central to the case. 299 00:17:51,640 --> 00:17:54,560 The responding patrolman, identified in reports as William 300 00:17:54,560 --> 00:17:57,600 Kirby, stated that she was visibly terrified. 301 00:17:58,000 --> 00:18:00,840 Her reaction appeared genuine and not fabricated. 302 00:18:01,240 --> 00:18:03,000 His conclusion was simple, but telling. 303 00:18:03,360 --> 00:18:06,320 She definitely saw something. For many investigators, 304 00:18:06,320 --> 00:18:10,440 witnesses, demeanor is critical. Fear that appears authentic, 305 00:18:10,720 --> 00:18:13,920 especially when assessed immediately after the event 306 00:18:14,320 --> 00:18:17,560 often carries weight, was in corroborating detail. 307 00:18:18,000 --> 00:18:21,920 This is the clicking sounds. This is where the case gets 308 00:18:21,920 --> 00:18:24,600 deep. A neighbor independently 309 00:18:24,600 --> 00:18:27,840 reported hearing strange clicking noises at the same time 310 00:18:28,120 --> 00:18:31,400 as the alleged landing, and that matters for two reasons. 311 00:18:31,720 --> 00:18:35,640 It introduces multiple witness confirmation, even if indirect, 312 00:18:35,640 --> 00:18:39,120 and it adds a mechanical or physical dimension to the event. 313 00:18:40,000 --> 00:18:42,640 Clicking of mechanical sounds shows up in other close 314 00:18:42,640 --> 00:18:46,640 encounter cases, often described as rhythmic, metallic, or unlike 315 00:18:46,640 --> 00:18:50,240 conventional engines. So there's no detailed craft 316 00:18:50,240 --> 00:18:53,080 shape report. It is no confirmed entity citing 317 00:18:53,080 --> 00:18:56,240 in her specific case, and no physical traces were publicly 318 00:18:56,240 --> 00:18:58,880 documented. But the claim was not of a 319 00:18:58,880 --> 00:19:02,440 distant object, it was a landing in close proximity to her home. 320 00:19:02,920 --> 00:19:06,560 And that alone elevates it from a typical light in the sky 321 00:19:06,560 --> 00:19:09,840 report to a close encounter. Now the weird thing about this 322 00:19:09,840 --> 00:19:15,080 is it's almost like this thing is just phasing into our 323 00:19:15,080 --> 00:19:18,760 reality, looking more and more interdimensional all the time. 324 00:19:18,920 --> 00:19:21,360 Now back to this article here at XO News. 325 00:19:21,720 --> 00:19:23,880 It goes on. It says other reports began 326 00:19:23,880 --> 00:19:26,200 coming in from Muncie and Delaware County, Indiana of a 327 00:19:26,200 --> 00:19:29,280 rash of UFO sightings. The Starz newspaper article 328 00:19:29,280 --> 00:19:33,280 headline read UFO reports rampant in the South. 329 00:19:33,360 --> 00:19:35,880 Indiana National Guard helicopters were blamed for 330 00:19:35,880 --> 00:19:38,960 these UFO sightings. On October 14th, a Dayton, OH 331 00:19:38,960 --> 00:19:43,480 woman told police that an oblong object blinking lights killed 2 332 00:19:43,480 --> 00:19:46,760 cows when it landed in a field. So about the time we had this 333 00:19:46,760 --> 00:19:49,560 guy in town saying 1 landed in the backyard, we've got another 334 00:19:49,560 --> 00:19:52,680 one saying, yeah, hey, I had two cows killed by one of these 335 00:19:52,680 --> 00:19:55,320 sayings. On October 17th, the Muncie 336 00:19:55,320 --> 00:19:58,400 Evening Press reported an encounter of a Muncie woman who 337 00:19:58,400 --> 00:20:01,040 claimed that a UFO had landed behind her home. 338 00:20:01,520 --> 00:20:04,000 The patrolman at the scene, this is when we're talking about, 339 00:20:04,160 --> 00:20:07,480 said that Lady did see something because she was terrified, quote 340 00:20:07,480 --> 00:20:09,960 UN quote. There are people out there that 341 00:20:09,960 --> 00:20:12,560 are not people. One caller to police said about 342 00:20:12,560 --> 00:20:15,080 an incident near the town of Wheeling, N Muncie. 343 00:20:15,080 --> 00:20:18,240 So we have reports of alien encounters separately from the 344 00:20:18,240 --> 00:20:21,760 report of this UFO. Landing in the lady's backyard 345 00:20:22,040 --> 00:20:25,840 on October 19th, the Muncie Evening Press reported a 346 00:20:25,920 --> 00:20:28,560 Blackford County Sheriff's deputy seeing a strange looking 347 00:20:28,560 --> 00:20:32,120 object with an arm like extension over a manufacturing 348 00:20:32,120 --> 00:20:34,840 plant. On October 20th, the Muncie Star 349 00:20:34,840 --> 00:20:37,360 reported UFO sightings near Portland, IN. 350 00:20:37,880 --> 00:20:42,960 Throughout October 1973, UFO sightings were reported every 351 00:20:42,960 --> 00:20:46,600 day from Texas to southern Indiana, But by November, the 352 00:20:46,600 --> 00:20:50,640 local UFO craze was over. Northwestern University 353 00:20:50,640 --> 00:20:53,480 researcher J Allen Heineck, of course we all have heard him, 354 00:20:53,520 --> 00:20:56,520 said there was no doubt Earth was being visited by aliens. 355 00:20:56,720 --> 00:21:00,680 Steven Spielberg's movie close Encounters of the Third Kind was 356 00:21:00,680 --> 00:21:04,240 set largely in Muncie, though not filmed there, and partially 357 00:21:04,240 --> 00:21:08,360 based on Heineck's accounts. Now, the editor's note says, I 358 00:21:08,360 --> 00:21:10,800 certainly hope that the guy responsible for losing all those 359 00:21:10,800 --> 00:21:12,840 weather balloons was sacked. Yeah, no kidding. 360 00:21:13,200 --> 00:21:15,960 With recent news reports of secret Pentagon investigations 361 00:21:15,960 --> 00:21:19,120 of flying saucers and unidentified flying objects 362 00:21:19,120 --> 00:21:22,000 going back over a period of several years, it's important to 363 00:21:22,000 --> 00:21:25,880 note that the Muncie that Muncie into Indiana, all of East 364 00:21:25,880 --> 00:21:28,440 Central IN really got there first. 365 00:21:28,680 --> 00:21:32,400 Well, this phenomena has been along for so long, goes on it 366 00:21:32,400 --> 00:21:34,480 says. Muncie's dramatic 1973 brush 367 00:21:34,480 --> 00:21:38,320 with UFO mania was recently cited in a magazine article. 368 00:21:38,520 --> 00:21:42,680 And, of course, 2017 saw the 40th anniversary of the release 369 00:21:42,680 --> 00:21:46,160 of Steven Spielberg's close Encounters of the Third Kind, 370 00:21:46,560 --> 00:21:49,600 which was set largely in Muncie, although it was not filmed 371 00:21:49,600 --> 00:21:51,920 there. Before any of that happened, 372 00:21:51,920 --> 00:21:57,320 however, in October 1973, Muncie newspapers ran daily stories 373 00:21:57,320 --> 00:21:59,440 about sightings of UF OS around the country. 374 00:21:59,840 --> 00:22:02,440 And then the flying saucer sightings began in earnest, 375 00:22:02,720 --> 00:22:06,000 right in her own backyard. Now people can say, well, this 376 00:22:06,000 --> 00:22:11,600 is just a matter of suggestion, kind of a of this mass hysteria, 377 00:22:11,960 --> 00:22:15,760 but I think the sightings are too specific for that really 378 00:22:16,040 --> 00:22:17,440 goes on and says the next day, I know. 379 00:22:17,440 --> 00:22:20,960 The UPI story appeared this time on the front page of the Star. 380 00:22:21,400 --> 00:22:24,160 Expanding on the Tennessee sightings, two brothers, 13 and 381 00:22:24,160 --> 00:22:28,000 nine, took refuge in a chicken coop when they were buzzed by a 382 00:22:28,000 --> 00:22:31,680 UFO in Chester County, Tennessee, two days later. 383 00:22:31,680 --> 00:22:34,640 According to a story published in the Muncie Star, police find 384 00:22:34,640 --> 00:22:37,400 a weather balloon that was likely responsible for UFO 385 00:22:37,400 --> 00:22:40,520 sightings north of Indianapolis. Now, you see they're kind of 386 00:22:40,520 --> 00:22:42,680 making a jump there. Sure, they're releasing these. 387 00:22:42,720 --> 00:22:45,400 I think they release these weather balloons now about every 388 00:22:45,400 --> 00:22:48,000 30 minutes. So we have, as you can imagine, 389 00:22:48,480 --> 00:22:51,160 probably dozens of these sayings, if not a couple dozen 390 00:22:51,160 --> 00:22:53,600 going at any time. But but honestly, do we have 391 00:22:53,600 --> 00:22:54,920 that many weather balloons around? 392 00:22:55,680 --> 00:22:59,440 Then it goes on and says then on Wednesday, October 10th, 1973 393 00:22:59,440 --> 00:23:03,480 the UFO craze came to Muncie. The evening before the Muncie 394 00:23:03,480 --> 00:23:06,560 Star reported mysterious multi colored lights were seen by 395 00:23:06,560 --> 00:23:09,960 several 100 people. About 100 people called police. 396 00:23:10,160 --> 00:23:13,800 Sheriff Sergeant Richard Connor said over the course of two 397 00:23:13,800 --> 00:23:17,040 hours, another 50 to 60 people called Muncie police. 398 00:23:17,040 --> 00:23:19,520 So you got 150 a 160 people calling the police. 399 00:23:19,880 --> 00:23:22,560 You have to wonder how many didn't get through on the phone. 400 00:23:23,000 --> 00:23:25,360 Police theorize that weather balloons were to blame. 401 00:23:25,560 --> 00:23:28,560 Newton Sprague, director of Ball State University's observatory, 402 00:23:28,560 --> 00:23:32,440 offered the balloon theory tear. This is of course 1970s. 403 00:23:32,720 --> 00:23:35,960 Weather balloons were the go to narrative on these things. 404 00:23:35,960 --> 00:23:38,600 If this happened today, I would imagine they'd be calling these 405 00:23:38,600 --> 00:23:41,120 things all drones goes on, it says. 406 00:23:41,120 --> 00:23:44,280 Then on October 13th, local newspapers carried a UPI story 407 00:23:44,280 --> 00:23:48,120 about two shipyard workers in Pascagoula, Ms. who said that 408 00:23:48,120 --> 00:23:51,880 you're abducted and taken aboard a UFO by silvery skin creatures 409 00:23:52,040 --> 00:23:55,040 with big eyes and pointed ears. They reported encounter became 410 00:23:55,040 --> 00:23:56,800 one of the most famous of the UFO era. 411 00:23:57,680 --> 00:24:02,520 Of course, like we said, we've done this, this, this is one of 412 00:24:02,520 --> 00:24:08,800 the, I think bedrock cases and, and UFO lower UFO history. 413 00:24:08,800 --> 00:24:10,600 Really. The floodgates were open for UFO 414 00:24:10,600 --> 00:24:15,560 sightings in the Muncie area. On October 17th, 1973, four or 415 00:24:15,560 --> 00:24:18,560 five Indiana National Guard helicopters were blamed for a 416 00:24:18,560 --> 00:24:21,400 ration of UFO sightings over Muncie in Delaware County. 417 00:24:21,520 --> 00:24:23,720 The choppers prompted 40 calls to police. 418 00:24:24,040 --> 00:24:26,720 The next day in Dayton County, Ohio, a woman told police that 419 00:24:26,720 --> 00:24:30,080 an oblong object with blinking lights killed 2 cows when it 420 00:24:30,080 --> 00:24:33,320 landed in a field. In the meantime, UPI reported 421 00:24:33,320 --> 00:24:36,640 that hypnosis supported this of two Mississippi men who said 422 00:24:36,640 --> 00:24:39,040 they were abducted. Northwestern University 423 00:24:39,040 --> 00:24:43,440 researcher Jay Allen Heink, upon whose cases Spielberg's movies 424 00:24:43,720 --> 00:24:46,840 was partially based, said there was no doubt Earth was being 425 00:24:46,840 --> 00:24:50,840 visited by aliens. October 17th, the Muncie Evening 426 00:24:50,840 --> 00:24:54,120 Press reported on a few days of Muncie UFO encounters. 427 00:24:54,400 --> 00:24:58,440 More UFOs reported in Muncie. Read the headline and then it 428 00:24:58,440 --> 00:25:02,920 says Missus Pierce at 226 N Davis called police at 8:54 PM. 429 00:25:03,400 --> 00:25:07,160 Tuesday to report that a UFO had landed behind her home. 430 00:25:07,520 --> 00:25:10,920 Patrolman William Kirby, who was at the scene, said, quote, that 431 00:25:10,920 --> 00:25:13,920 Lady did see something because she was terrified, UN quote. 432 00:25:13,920 --> 00:25:17,200 A neighbor heard clicking sounds at about the same time. 433 00:25:17,320 --> 00:25:19,600 These are just some of the ones that we that we can hear about. 434 00:25:20,040 --> 00:25:21,640 It finishes up with this quote. I love this. 435 00:25:21,920 --> 00:25:24,080 I'll believe in one when it flies through my living room, 436 00:25:24,200 --> 00:25:27,120 Muncie's deputy police Chief Jack Turner told the evening 437 00:25:27,120 --> 00:25:30,440 Press. So even though he's got 160 438 00:25:30,440 --> 00:25:33,720 phone calls reporting these things and people all over his 439 00:25:33,720 --> 00:25:36,720 district talking about it, he's not going to believe it till he 440 00:25:36,720 --> 00:25:39,160 sees it with his own eyes. Kind of a doubting Thomas. 441 00:25:39,680 --> 00:25:43,280 What I like about this is that it's 1973. 442 00:25:43,560 --> 00:25:48,000 So the majority of people, while they may be watching network 443 00:25:48,000 --> 00:25:53,680 news and network sitcoms and dramas from say 7:00 to 10:00, 444 00:25:53,920 --> 00:25:55,600 most of them aren't on their phone. 445 00:25:56,120 --> 00:25:58,640 So you still at 1973, you still have a lot of people looking 446 00:25:58,640 --> 00:26:00,880 outside or being outdoors doing things. 447 00:26:01,360 --> 00:26:04,200 And I think that might have also been part of the reason why so 448 00:26:04,200 --> 00:26:07,880 many people saw these UF OS, they were unidentified flying 449 00:26:07,880 --> 00:26:10,000 objects and reported them to police. 450 00:26:10,400 --> 00:26:14,000 I think it would have been a lot better off if those people would 451 00:26:14,000 --> 00:26:18,360 have just taken the time to document what they saw, wrote 452 00:26:18,360 --> 00:26:22,120 down on a piece of paper. So we'd have these reports 4050, 453 00:26:22,120 --> 00:26:24,520 sixty years later. Anyway, a lot of cool sightings. 454 00:26:24,520 --> 00:26:26,880 They're taking us clear back to 1973. 455 00:26:27,360 --> 00:26:30,400 It's like the old saying goes, the more things change, the more 456 00:26:30,400 --> 00:26:32,520 they stay the same. Until next time. 457 00:26:32,840 --> 00:26:34,640 This is UFO warning over and out.